An update on the sweet little black female cat who was rescued from the street last week.(I wrote about her on the blog: http://pfasask.blogspot.com/2009/03/sheeba-can-be-queen-now.html )
After Jacyntha and her friend rescued her, she went to Cherilyn's to be fostered. When I checked with her a few days later, Cherilyn said she was very worried about Sheeba, who she had renamed Angel. She was not very active, and had some wounds that worried her.
So, we had her into Victoria Vet Clinic last night. Dr. Shtuka examined her, and it has become clear that this poor little 8-12 week old girl was the victim of some kind of attack. She has cuts and bruises all over her body, an ulcer on her paw, and her lower jaw is severly wounded. The vet is describing the jaw injury as a "degloving", where the skin has been separated from the face itself. Angel also has a severly injured tail - Dr S thinks it might be broken, and that it will also need surgery, or the entire tail will become dead.
Cherilyn has taken Angel home for now, and is doing a wonderful job of keeping her very comfortable. She is on antibiotics and Cherilyn is cleaning her wounds regularly. Dr S has done up a treatment plan and an estimate for Angel, and I called the clinic and spoke to Lea, the clinic manager about it just now. To repair the mouth injury, she has quoted $340 for the surgery. However, Dr S wants to consult some other vets before we proceed. She hasn't decided yet if it would be ok to wait for a bit and see how the tail injury develops, and then if it needs surgery do both at the same time. Or, should the repair to the mouth happen right away. She is going to call me today or tomorrow so that we can discuss it once she has had some time to think.
I am sick to my stomach thinking about the kind of torture that Angel must have lived through. The vet was pretty much certain it wasn't a car accident or anything innocuous like that.
I'll keep everyone posted.
-Sarah
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